Big Four reach live and let live Berlin accord
Paris June 19 A four-nation pact on Berlin emerged as the Big Four Foreign Ministers announced a principle based framework. The accord aims to reopen East West trade in Germany and ease tensions while Potsdam style guarantees for Berlin access are sought.
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British resort developers view Lakes area for Butlin Village
Sir Bede Clifford and General Alfred Critchley arrived in Austin for a second site inspection with the Austin Area Economic Development Foundation. The plan envisions a 4.5 million dollar Butlin Holiday Village on Lake Austin Park land with potential boat tours and site checks through Tuesday.
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Houston
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Roper Found Guilty and Given Five Year Term
A 98th District Court jury found Dr. C. H. Roper guilty of murder without malice and sentenced him to five years in the state penitentiary. The seven day trial followed the July 18, 1948 shooting of McCreary Crow at Roper’s home near Fredericksburg Road. No appeal was filed Sunday.
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C. H. Roper
State Penitentiary
Austin
McCreary Crow
Dripping Springs
Roper
Fredericksburg Road
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Bob Ott
State of Texas
Dan Moody
Ernest Best
Moody
Picketing Ruled Legal Despite Boycott Effect
The National Labor Relations Board ruled unanimously that union picketing at a plant on a lawful strike is legal even if it may affect other firms like a secondary boycott. It dismissed Pure Oil Company charges against a Toledo CIO Oil Workers Local, holding no secondary boycott occurred. The decision preserves primary strike action while acknowledging collateral business disruption.
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National Labor Relations Board
Pure Oil Company
Toledo
Ohio
CIO Oil Workers Union
Nlrb Generas
Robert N. Denham
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Pure Oil
Denham
Standard Oil
Istruck
Nine Die In Virginia Floods Across Potomac Valley
Floods in the Potomac Shenandoah area claim at least nine lives across Virginia and West Virginia. Rescue workers recovered three bodies with dozens unaccounted, including a two year old. Petersburg Moorefield communities struggle to restore communications and assess damage.
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Moorefield
Bill Jenkins
Corporal Hurst
Head-on Crash Kills Five in Marfa
Five persons died in a Marfa head-on crash involving two autos. Victims include Mrs G H Robinson of El Paso and Marfa residents Matias Salgado Mariano Jiner Ernest Miller and David Canteras. Mrs Robinson's son Robert Robinson and Henry Magdalanez were seriously injured. Mrs Robinson was en route to visit a relative. her husband works for the railroad in Montana.
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Wheeling
el Paso
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Ten GOPs Propose Low Cost Housing Plan in House
Ten House Republicans announced a housing bill substitute to be offered this week. The proposal features a privately owned home program for low income families and includes slum clearance, aligning with much of the administration's measure.
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Federal Housing Administration
The
Senate
Polio cases in Texas drop as San Angelo eases burden
San Angelo's polio cases under treatment fell by two to 76 as more staff and equipment arrived for the statewide fight. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis labeled San Angelo “hardest hit” and noted rising cases in nearby cities, with numbers changing across San Antonio Austin Dallas Fort Worth and the Valley center at Harlingen.
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National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
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Austin
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Parkland
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Valley Polio Treatment Center
Monay
Timetable for NLI Dividends Pondered
Washington June 19 Up The Veterans Administration weighing a timetable for 2.8 billion dollars in National Life Insurance dividends to about 16 million World War II veterans The first payments could be authorized by Carl R. Gray Jr and substantially completed in the first half of 1950 Special application blanks would be printed and available in August at post offices VA offices and veterans organizations
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Carl R. Gray Jr
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Legislature Might Send Big Money Bills to Floors This Week
The Austin American Capitol staff reports conferees on four major money bills near agreement and could send them to the Senate and House floors as early as Tuesday. Budget cuts may not satisfy all, and new taxes seem likely despite trimmed appropriations. Governor Beauford Jester attends the governors conference in Colorado as lawmakers weigh old age pensions youth programs and education reviews amid revenue concerns.
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Reds drive Czech Archbishop from pulpit in Prague church
Archbishop Josef Beran was interrupted during a sermon at St. Vitus Cathedral by hecklers, believed to be Communist. He abandoned the pulpit as disorder erupted in Prague.
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Disorder at Corpus Christi services as police arrest crowds
Police surrounded the Corpus Christi church during and after mass causing numerous arrests outside the church. Identity papers were demanded from many attempting entry while others were refused admission claiming the church was full. The reasons for the arrests were not learned.
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Duare
Daunting paint job wins crowd at Brooklyn archbishop rally
In Brooklyn 75 year old Herman Rodenberger boasts a dazzle paint treatment on his house that keeps kids from bouncing balls off the walls. Meanwhile in the cathedral courtyard Catholic crowds applaud Archbishop and clash with Communist chants as police restore order during a government church row.
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Herman Rodenberger
Rodenberger
Brooklyn
UT Prof's Wife Dies at Home
Mrs Mildred Hudson 41 wife of Dr Wilson Hudson UT English professor died at 1711 Pearl at 9 15 p m Sunday after brief illness She attended Austin High School and UT 1929 She was active in Presbyterian Church and AAUW and Gamma Phi Beta She is survived by her husband parents and brother Funeral at Weed Corley pending arrangements burial in Karnes City Tuesday
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Wilson Hudson
University of Texas
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Hugh Buckman
Helena
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Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
Hugh Bennett Buckman
Karnes City
Weed-Corley
Champ Skater Flees Hungary for Vienna
World champion skater Andrea Kekessy age 24 has fled from Hungary to Vienna. The case follows Kekessy and Ede Kiraly winning the pairs title in February.
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Austria
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Naime
Former Hungarian Minister Denounced as American Spy
Laszlo Rajk, 40, ex Minister of Foreign Affairs and ex Minister of the Interior, was denounced as an American spy by Szabad Nep, the official organ of the Hungarian Workers Party. Rajk and 19 accomplices were named as American agents amid a sweeping purge linked to a suspected spy ring and pre war fascist remnants.
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